The Icethetics Cover Story series debuted last week focusing on the new national team uniforms being worn in Sochi this month. In it I included a wealth of polls and rating widgets so everyone could quickly share their feedback.

At the end of the article, I shared my rankings and set up a poll asking readers to pick their top three favorites to form a community ranking. But between that poll and the individual ratings for each country, I was surprised to find wildly different results.

Take a look at these lists to see what I mean.

By Top 3 Poll

The poll, listing all 14 nations, allowed readers to select up to three favorites. This list is in order of most votes to fewest.

1. Canada
2. Slovakia
3. Sweden
4. United States
5. Russia
6. Germany
7. Czech Republic
8. Latvia
9. Finland
10. Slovenia
11. Austria
12. Norway
13. Switzerland
14. Japan

By Individual Ratings

Readers cast individual ratings for each nation. There was no comparison to other nations for this setup.

1. Sweden
2. Slovakia
3. Germany
4. Austria
5. Latvia
6. Slovenia
7. Norway
8. Russia
9. Switzerland
10. Canada
11. Czech Republic
12. Finland
13. United States
14. Japan

How strange is that? On their own, the U.S. and Canada were ripped by voters, yet they ended up in most people's top three. Sounds like some of us are having trouble being honest with ourselves.

So while Canada and the U.S. fell sharply, Austria jumped from 11th to 4th when you look at individual ratings instead of top three selections. What I find funny is that Slovakia ended up second in both groups. And we all just flat out hate Japan's jerseys.

What do you make of these results? Did you vote with your head or your heart?